WVC 16 - 13 - 1
§16-13-1. Acquisition, operation, etc., of works; acquisition of
property; issuance of bonds.
(a) Any municipal corporation and/or sanitary district in the
state of West Virginia is hereby authorized and empowered to own,
acquire, construct, equip, operate and maintain within and/or
without the corporate limits of such municipal corporation:

(1) A sewage collection system and/or a sewage treatment plant
or plants, intercepting sewers, outfall sewers, force mains,
pumping stations, ejector stations, and all other appurtenances
necessary or useful and convenient for the collection and/or
treatment, purification and disposal, in a sanitary manner, of the
liquid and solid waste, sewage, night soil and industrial waste of
such municipal corporation and/or sanitary district, including
acquisition of the municipal sewerage system resulting from the
severance of a combined system pursuant to section one-b, article
twenty, chapter eight of this code; and

(2) A stormwater collection system and control system,
including all lines, pumping stations and all other facilities and
appurtenances necessary or useful and convenient for the collection
and control of stormwater, and an associated stormwater management
program.

(b) Any municipal corporation and/or sanitary district in the
state of West Virginia is hereby authorized and empowered to
acquire by gift, grant, purchase, condemnation, or otherwise, all
necessary lands, rights-of-way and property therefor, within and/or without the corporate limits of such municipal corporation and/or
sanitary district, and to issue revenue bonds to pay the cost of
such works and property.

(c) Any municipality may serve and supply the facilities of
such sewerage system and a stormwater system and associated
stormwater management program within the corporate limits of the
municipality and within the area extending twenty miles beyond the
corporate limits of such municipality: Provided, That the
municipality may not serve or supply the facilities of such
sewerage system or stormwater system within the corporate limits of
any other municipality without the consent of the governing body
thereof: Provided, however, That for stormwater systems, within
the twenty miles beyond the municipality's corporate limits the
only areas the municipality may serve and supply shall be those
areas from which stormwater affects or drains into the
municipality.

(d) No obligations shall be incurred by any municipality
and/or sanitary district in construction or acquisition except such
as is payable solely from the funds provided under the authority of
this article.

(e) No municipal corporation or sanitary district may acquire,
construct, establish, extend, repair or equip or thereafter repair,
maintain and operate a combined waterworks, sewerage or stormwater
system, which includes highways, road and drainage easements,
and/or stormwater facilities constructed, owned and/or operated by the West Virginia division of highways without the express
agreement of the commissioner of highways.

Note: WV Code updated with legislation passed through the 2014 1st Special Session
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